Moby Grape - I Am Not Willing

[@josephlemko3027]

Great song from the truly underrated"Moby Grape,69" album. I am still playing the hell out of this album 50 years later.

[@sixbladeknife44]

joseph lemko Truly Fine Citizen is also superb...these later albums deserve more respect.

[@rick4electric]

I'm glad the idiots don't listen!

[@MrSf66]

MG69 is damn good.

[@josephlemko3027]

@@MrSf66: I feel extremely happy that there is still a Moby Grape fan, other than myself, still out there.🤗 Great to hear from you! Stay Healthy✌

[@MD-lf3gt]

@@MrSf66no flaws in that album

[@junglechef1951]

Great version of a GREAT song!!! Moby Grape '69 is one of the most underrated albums in rock and roll history!!!

[@scrunchymacscruff1244]

I always thought it was TRULY FINE CITIZEN that was grossly underrated.

[@sixbladeknife44]

One of the greatest/underrated broken hearted songs ever, go Peter and Grape we’re still listening!

[@steverose7782]

When they exploded onto the SF scene they were billed as America's answer to the Beatles. They sure seemed like it at the time. That's how good they were. Long live the Grape.

[@chrisbotelho7212]

They were never America's answer to the Beatles. Come on man. They were a community of pot smoking boozed up hippie bands along with the Dead, the Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother, Peanut Butter Conspiray, and Country Joe among others. America's answer to the Beatles? Haha right.

[@charlescantrell7149]

​@@chrisbotelho7212 The Beatles started this trend in music, so...

[@chrisbotelho7212]

@@charlescantrell7149 I like some of those bands but America's answer to the Beatles? Absolutely not, no way.

[@billiam8270]

How did I miss listening to this all these years? Even without the 3rd guitar of Spence, they were still great. Jerry Miller was kind of unknown except in the Bay Area and Santa Cruz for those years, and Mosley knew how to put down great bass lines. My favorite SF band - I still play their first album and LOVE it so much. P.S. I saw them in the summer of 1967 and they blew me away.

[@NoRosesForMe]

Im obsessed with this band and this song but this version is amazing. My gawd....And its so sad how they arent as well known as they should be. Such a treat to hear 'em live. Thank you so much. Blessings & peace ♥

[@nigelsmith934]

Wonderful great band damm Mathew katz

[@johnknottenbelt2727]

Man, Moby Grape were brilliant !

[@pietmunsterman1510]

Great song. Thank you Moby Grape.

[@phildafunk27]

I just disocvered this song about 45 mins ago and all I can say is wow! What a heavy song. I wish they jammed out longer on their songs. There was some serious talent in this band. I've known about these guys for so many years but tonight is the first time I've ever listened. Some good days ahead?

[@darrenbarakat3497]

Great song! I wrote in depth about it in my ebook "Greatest Misses: Deep Cuts and Forgotten Songs from the Shadows of Classic Rock, Second Edition, Expanded and Updated."

[@1blastman]

Is your book still available? where can I get a copy?

[@Zopf-international]

Love my Grape. Skippy for President.

[@sammyscotch9945]

Tho he was quite troubled before he passed he would be much better than whats in the wh now

[@cheefinthakeef]

This was recorded at the RAI convention center in Amsterdam in 1969. I just used the Monterey picture as a background because of the cool light show colors.

[@Glicksman1]

How the Grapes dd not become one of the major supergroups of the '60s and '70s is a colossal tragedy. Well, we have what they recorded and must be satisfied with that. But still...

[@MegaCirse]

The expressive power of the sound architecture breaks with any form of transcription of the real to attach itself to the expression of an elusive universe. Colors and rhythm of this composition is a language that gives voice to exaltation

[@DavidWilson-ok5yp]

Top 5 song of all time.

[@altcountryguitar]

Thanks for the post. Always had a soft spot for Bob Mosley's vocals. Pure soul. The harmonies on the album version are just killer. In a better world, you'd be hearing Grape classics all over your radio...which only reinforces my belief in a vengeful supreme being who has abdicated all responsibility, handed the car keys to Satan, and let slip the dogs of war, Lady Gaga and Ke$ha. (As they say in New Jersey, " I got yer summer of love right here.")

[@nyg1954]

It's Peter Lewis singing.

[@nyg1954]

It's Peter Lewis singing.

[@montag4516]

@nyg1954 Yep. that's Peter's vocals, with his naturally hovering, signature tremelo.

[@ColoradoGreenHills]

I used to own a CD of these Amsterdam Radio recordings; I'm sorry I traded it back in to the record store. I still think this is one of the most distinctive examples of both Jerry's and Peter's guitar-playning; it really blows me away. It also is remarkable, quite frankly, how well Moby Grape's crosstalk and guitar sound held up without Skip in the band, as was the case for all of those Amsterdam radio recordings.

[@jasondrums2331]

The most beautiful sound. it is criminally negligent that this band is not heard and mentioned by the whole world on a daily basis.

[@laurentfaugerolas3485]

I discovered Moby Grape in 1972 only ( I was fifteen ) through " 20 Granite creek ". Far better than Status Quo , loved by my school mates ! Afterwards, I back tracked and tried to discover all their LPS ( not very easy to find them in France at that time ). Decades after, I am still amazed by this wonderful group and so sad because of the curse which prevents them to " make it ". But the music remains and it is unforgettable.

[@phillipph9882]

nobody i know thought they were underrated at the time - at least on a par w/Buffalo Springfield if not the Byrds, on the east cost anyhow. that 2d lp tho... the great tracks sold short by jokes and jams falling flat...Skip turning into not a good influence then a disaster... and still maintaining this level of vulnerable insight.

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

very good..............

[@nyg1954]

Great Peter Lewis vocal.

[@edhallam7580]

shavin my head for an 11 year old kid tomorrow. couldnt help but think of this song.........

[@howardacquistapace2782]

your comment even though i know i only slightly get the content , the point of the power and beauty and ubiquity (sorry for the bizzarro word, but no other works.) of music for humans is exemplified by it. esp w how deep music-as-true- soul-expreession-art can be found even in a "basic rock band" format Given musically true and genuine human individuals moby grape , yea as only a few others ever i have heard. ... i didnt express it well but i think hope i said it.

[@scrunchymacscruff1244]

@@howardacquistapace2782 A space, hall, whatever, ideal to haul in the amps (hopefully no long flights of stairs), & tonnages 0f ancillary musical-related objects onto a stage..they all look pretty much the same, stages, empty; sound-checks, heard by the lucky few, tweak it a little, make sure it's super,SUPER loud for the evening (usually),&clear. MOBY GRAPE will do the rest of it, the heavy rock'n'roll lifting (for a night to remember, a good time was had, the usual superlative-less giant dance party..these guys='d>fun, --hanging those vibrations up there in the air for all to gawk, looked EZ, thanks..you've been a great audience. Old hippies never die, they..just, ah.........trip out. God bless

[@NoRosesForMe]

@ClueSign Makes me cry sometimes.....Lewis. Especially this song.

[@phillipph9882]

Moseley too

[@tomscan64]

This is really one of their more remarkable performances. I've always felt put off by the lead guitar (aka the "blues riff") of the studio version. I just never got it. But here, it's so intergrated from beginning to end that it makes sense. It's almost a strange, eerie 'conversation' btween lead guitar and Lewis, who is so winsome and unadorned. It's pretty sick actually

[@codybluetarp]

In other Grape songs, like "Looper", "The Place & the Time", 'the 'alternate versions' seem to have that extra edge that you refer to in Jerry Miller's soulful guitar and Lewis's vocal here.

[@Oare987]

I love the bottleneck (?) guitar line that connects lines on the recorded version.

[@PAShattuck]

i loved this song in wrong door

[@thegreatchain7112]

Thank you for putting up this classic ! I've been playing this tune for decades ! on the record it's inG - but they're doing it in D - my better singing key

[@jasonharcourt77]

Ooh, lovely chilled version of a classic. Was there a smoother voice of that era than Peter Lewis?

[@VinMan182]

good song

[@joeshoe6184]

Did Spinal Tap use this same set for 'Flower People'? It sure looks familiar... Cool song tho, from an oft overlooked San Francisco group of the '60s

[@50broadcaster]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAA! I JUST WASTED A MOUTHFUL OF PETES WICKED ALE ON YOUR POST and i agree. what a band. and like you said, why does lady gaga get millions of views, and the humble grape gets nada? so much soul, so much REAL talent. great lyrics, great song composition. really?, lady gaga? God does have a sense of humor, but i think even God says wtf? sometimes go grape!

[@frunavarro]

Thanks for sharing. Fantastic broken hearted song…I love it…btw, I may be mistaken, but in my opinion there’s only verses in that song…I am not able to perceive any chorus which sounds even more amazing…

[@Longie60724]

Jerry Miller still plays around Tacoma pretty regular. Moby Grape was Led Zeppilins favorite American Band.

[@joeyhuebner10]

Only Robert's favorite. Little Feat was Zeps favorite American band.

[@arthurwashburn7624]

Unfortunately, they didn't get much air time on the radio, excellent band, under rated. Obscure.

[@josephobenauer3093]

They were screwed big time by their greedy manager, who also f*cked over many bands in SF, special place in hell for him.

[@scrunchymacscruff1244]

It'll be our secret..TO SHOUT AT THE CULTURALLY DEPRIVED

[@phillipph9882]

they literally released 10 tracks from the 1st lp on 45 simultaneously, and got all the heavy play their label wanted, on the coasts anyway. but right off the bat it was the hype that hurt them

[@ClueSign]

@altcountryguitar Moseley is God on vocals, but this track is Peter Lewis -- a sweet, melodic, but thinner voice than Moseley. Grape had four great vocalists. So totally locked in.

[@nyg1954]

5 great vocalists.They all sang 3 great guitarists.

[@tomscan64]

Absolutely. He's on a Glenn Campbell / Gram Parsons level here. I do miss that really high guitar part (that's almost like a pedal steel) on the studio version)

[@rickrothmi]

so where does this live track come from exactly?

[@tomscan64]

how Lewis sings this plaintively in a loud setting, with (I presume) Miller skronking around his vocals is great. Ive always wanted to hear a mix without the lead.

[@phillipph9882]

i'd like that, but the extrovert/introvert clash works for me, like young/stills

[@bfeneto]

[@dadtablet2092]

Peter Lewis out- Neil-Youngs Neil Young.

[@arthurwashburn7624]

:) even God says WTF? lol

[@thegreatchain7112]

Luck bastards at this show ! I saw them in 74 & the Summer of Love reunion 2007